Death of Digg?

I’ve just read a brilliant article by Danny Sullivan about Digg reaching 1 million users and I’m in total agreement with him. There is no such thing as a democracy on Digg any more (assuming there was in the first place) because the top users are dictating what does and doesn’t appear on the site. If your face doesn’t fit, you don’t get a look in. A select few are dictating what everyone else sees and that is surely against the whole concept of a site like Digg.

Danny refers to them as the Bury Brigade. Personally I think they’re more like the Digg Mafia. If you say something they don’t agree with, you get buried in the desert and nobody will ever know who did it.

Digg was a great idea but it’s all gone sour. The Bury Brigade, the false accounts, the fact that every man and his dog is gaming the system. They’re a classic case of getting too big too soon. They didn’t have a plan for when the site became popular and the model wasn’t built to prevent wide spread system abuse.

Yeah it’s nice to have the time to be blogging again! What with one thing and another, time hasn’t been on my side for the last month or so but I’m back and I’ll hopefully continue to entertain with my patter 😉

hmmm…i really don’t think that digg will die. 1million users are a powerfull source of income, digg has the money to do it better, and for sure they will do it. They will no risk to loose their empire.

I think that just looking around on various sites and blogs that people are getting sick of the Digg Mafia burying stories out of spite. Another good example of this is over at Graywolf where the Digg Mafia buried 3 of his stories in 3 days.

Yeah, pretty much. Fundamentally it’s a sound idea but, in my opinion, one that is flawed due to the lack of planning on the part of Digg to prevent power users from monopolising the content. In fact they have only recently removed the power users feature as being a selling point of the system.

Hmm…just read through the history of your problems with Digg. It’s pretty much another example of why, in my opinion, they won’t be around in the next twelve months or, at least, not to the same levels.